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Get the Target of a Windows Shortcut

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Demonstrates how to get the target of a Windows shortcut.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77 or greater.

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loFac = createobject("CkFileAccess")

lcTargetPath = loFac.SymlinkTarget("qa_data/my_shortcut")
if (loFac.LastMethodSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? "Failed to get shortcut target."
    release loFac
    return
endif

? "target path = " + lcTargetPath


release loFac